Leonard Jacobson – A Silent Mind
by Leonard Jacobson: When you become fully present, thoughts stop and your mind is silent… […]
Can Spiritual Sleep Help You Learn, Heal, and Reach Your Full Potential?
by Jessica Baron:Through dream incubation, yoga nidra, or a general meditative practice, spiritual sleep can […]
How Mindfulness Is Showing Up At The Olympic Games
by Oyinda Lagunju: Here are some of the ways mindfulness is taking center stage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games… […]
Living the Compassionate Life – The Dalai Lama
by the Dalai Lama: This teaching by the Dalai Lama explains how the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness and compassion lead inevitably […]
Yogi Bhajan Kundalini Yoga
“Kundalini Yoga is the science to unite the finite with Infinity, and it’s the art to experience Infinity in the finite.” Yogi Bhajan […]
Breathwork For Balance: How Pranayama Cultivates A Clear, Calm Mind
by Eddie Stern: Breathwork and pranayama are having their moment in the sun right now… […]
Using The Body And Breath To Get Out Of Your Head
by Cara Bradley: We often practice mindfulness in stillness. Here, Cara Bradley shares how mindful movement and breath awareness can help us shift away from stress… […]
Stop Surviving and Start Thriving in Your Life – Cheryl Richardson
Cheryl Richardson brings light onto how we see our lives and ways to recognize inspiration. […]
A New Approach To Meditation
by Mary O’Malley: What is meditation? Answering this question can be a bit tricky as there are so many different views on what meditation is all about. […]
Everything Manifests When You Meditate!
by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Divine and worldly dispensation are one and the same, they are not discrete. God is inseparable from this world. He is all permeating. Sarvam khalvidam Brahma – All of this [...]
Meditate For A World Of Peace And Abundace
by Dr. Alberto Villoldo: I am convinced that meditation is the method the sages of the East employed to access the power of the god-brain… […]
A Healing Tool That Many Have Forgotten.
by Nick Polizzi: Have you ever had a strange feeling that… […]
A Way Out of Suffering: An Interview With Sharon Salzberg
Omega Institute: talks with Sharon Salzberg, who urges us to live from love and take care of one another. […]
Using The Body And Breath To Get Out Of Your Head
by Cara Bradley: We often practice mindfulness in stillness. Here, Cara Bradley shares how mindful movement and breath awareness can help us shift away from stress… […]
Meditate Into Higher Consciousness
by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: We live most of our lives through three states of consciousness: waking, dreaming and sleeping… […]
Wayne Dyer Summarises The Tao. Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life (Part 2 of 2)
Dr Wayne Dyer summarises the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, which is a collection of 81 verses offered by a man named Lao Tzu some 25 Centuries ago. […]
Wayne Dyer Summarises The Tao. Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life Pt 1
Dr Wayne Dyer summarises the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, which is a collection of 81 verses offered by a man named Lao Tzu some 25 Centuries ago. […]
Ananda Giri Is Freedom for All or is Freedom for the Virtuous Only?
By Ananda Giri: In the summer of 2006, I had visited Stockholm, Sweden for a spiritual conference. […]
Ken Wilber Stages Of Meditation
Ken Wilber: In this essay, originally included in The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: Volume IV, Ken offers an in-depth description of each of the major state-stages of meditative practice […]
Joan Halifax Roshi The Precious Necessity of Compassion
Joan Halifax Roshi: Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. His Holiness the Dalai Lama […]
Spirit Rock at 25: meditation and renovation
by Meredith May: Fresh back from five years meditating in the Buddhist forest monasteries of Burma and Thailand, Jack Kornfield went to Manhattan to meet his sister-in-law. […]
Staying in Love
By Janet Attwood: Most of us know that our ability to love others is dependent on our love for our self. In fact, the love we experience in our lives is just a reflection of [...]
How to Cultivate Mindfulness By Listening To Your Thoughts – Ram Dass
by Ram Dass: Try this exercise to develop mindfulness by meditating on one’s thoughts… […]
Gabrielle Bernstein Overcoming Your Fears And Guilt
by Gabrielle Bernstein: For 20 years I kept a journal. I wrote about heartbreak, anxiety, and eating disorders… […]
Balancing Act, an Interview with Jack Kornfield
Jack Kornfield is a clinical psychologist, author, and one of the most well-known teachers of Buddhism in the West. […]
Buddha Wanted – Apply Within
by Jack Kornfield: These are extraordinary times for a spiritual seeker. Modern spiritual bookstores bulge with texts of Christian, Jewish, Sufi, and Hindu mystical practices. […]
Theravada Buddhism
an interview with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein: […]
Jack Kornfield: Right understanding
by Jack Kornfield: This meditation practice, as many of you have done with this day of sitting and walking, was actually quite a lot. […]
Teacher who helped shape American Buddhism is still on a quest
by Kate Linthicum: In 1972, Jack Kornfield stepped off a plane in Washington, D.C., his head shaved and his body swathed in golden robes. […]
The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness
Jack Kornfield shares extraordinary stories of forgiveness–and explains how the next story could be yours. […]
Jack Kornfield: The Trustworthy Heart
By Barbara Graham: After years of spiritual practice, Jack Kornfield found he had emotional and relationship issues still unaddressed. […]
Enlightenments
by Jack Kornfield: On a meditation retreat several years ago, late one evening after the Dharma talk, a woman raised her hand and asked one last question: “Is enlightenment just a myth?” […]
Cheryl Richardson: Learn to Surrender
by Cheryl Richardson: Maybe you’re praying that a loved one recovers from a serious illness — or that your new date calls again, or that your son gets into his top college choice. […]
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
by Tara Brach: My earliest memories of being happy are of playing in the ocean. When our family began going to Cape Cod in the summer, the low piney woods, high dunes, and wide sweep [...]
Joseph Campbell on Marriage
by John Michael De Marco: The late mythology professor Joseph Campbell is best known for his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which inspired George Lucas to create Star Wars. […]
Remembering a Master Mythologist – Joseph Campbell Centennial
By Tom Jacobs (Santa Barbara News-Press 3/21/04) Joseph Campbell, who was born 100 years ago this Friday, is best known for his gentle admonition to “Follow your bliss.” […]
Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth
Excerpts from “Joseph Campbell – The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers.” […]
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Four Mantras Of True Presence
by Thich Nhat Hanh: Coming home to each other… […]
Expand Your Awareness To Expand Your Life – Deepak Chopra
by Deepak Chopra, M.D: This year the arrival of summer coincides with the perfect time to expand your life… […]
A Scientific Investigation Of Meditation By Russian Neuroscientists – His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala, HP, India – Mrs Natalia Inozemtseva, Deputy Director of Save Tibet Foundation, Russia, introduced this morning’s dialogue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and a group of Russian neuroscientists… […]
Mindfulness Master Thich Nhat Hanh Honored With Global Peace Prize
by Minh Nga: Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has received the 2019 Outstanding Inner Peace award for inspiring millions around the world to seek inner peace… […]
Virginia Satir: Becoming More Fully Human
Virginia Satir says change begins with learning to accept and understand the many parts of oneself. […]
6 Ways To Find Solitude, And Why It Matters
by Michael Pietrzak: On a wet Saturday morning in 2011, I dragged myself into the election office to pick up my list of voters… […]
Start with a Flower: Alice Walker & Sharon Salzberg
Moderated by Melvin McLeod: Sharon Salzberg: In speaking about metta practice, or loving-kindness practice, one of the hardest things is not to sentimentalize. […]
A Guided Meditation For Gathering Your Energy – Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg shares this practice for strengthening your ability to concentrate so you can empower yourself to stop wasting energy and attention… […]